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Quotes About Nothing

Without persistence, what remains is an enthusiasm of the moment. Without adaptability, what remains may be channeled into destructive fanaticism. Without positive obsession, there is nothing at all.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Don't be silly, you only catch what you fear to catch", and, fearing nothing, he saw himself immune.
~ Olivia Manning
The individual can do nothing and yet he can do everything.… I am on the side of struggle.
~ Unknown
I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.
~ Osamu Dazai
Tahun lalu tak terjadi apa-apa Tahun sebelumnya pun tak terjadi apa-apa Dan tahun sebelum tahun sebelumnya juga tak terjadi apa-apa.
~ Osamu Dazai
I shall become nothing, the wind, the sky.
~ Osamu Dazai
A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
~ Oscar Wilde
Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special.
~ Osho
You must maintain continual watchfulness so that nothing arises in your life that would cause you shame. ".
~ Oswald Chambers
Nothing's queer," stated the Virginian, "except marriage and lightning. Them two occurrences can still give me a sensation of surprise.
~ Owen Wister
To say "all that which does not exist" is to introduce, effectively, a new concept, but it does not bring into existence anything more than that very concept which it introduces. That is, a certain entity about which we know nothing except that it bears the name of "all that which does not exist.
~ Pablo Tusset
Old is just another word for nothing left to lose, a time of life to take bigger risks on behalf of the common good.
~ Parker J. Palmer
Anna came into the bedroom with a big red towel wrapped around herself and nothing else. Her reddish-brown hair was tied up on top of her head, and there was a drop of water on his favorite freckle. They were all his favorite freckles.
~ Patricia Briggs
Finally, the horizon stretched out infinitely before me and I felt utterly content looking at stars from afar and trying to make out all the variable, temporary, extinguished or faded stars. I was nothing in this infinity, but I could finally breathe.
~ Unknown
Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.
~ Patrick Ness
He is worse than the others, I show. He is worst of all of them. Because– Because he knew he was doing wrong. He felt the pain of his actions– But he did not amend them, shows the Sky. The rest are worth as much as their pack animals, I show, but worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.
~ Patrick Ness
There's her silence, loud as a roar, pulling at me like the greatest sadness ever, like I want to take it and press myself into it and just disappear forever down into nothing. What a relief that would feel like right now. What a blessed relief.
~ Patrick Ness
Everyone here is someone's daughter," she says quietly. "Every soldier out there is someone's son. The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else." "And that's why you don't fight," I say. She turns to me sharply. "To live is to fight," she snaps. "To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
~ Patrick Ness
Then the high king carefully turned the golden screw. Once: Nothing. Twice: Nothing. Then he turned it the third time, and the boy's ass fell off.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
It was too full of love. Nothing could shift it. Nothing could turn it from itself. When all the world was palimpsest, it was a perfect palindrome. Inviolate.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
over his own dark Cealdish beard. "Nothing like your marvelous facebear,
~ Patrick Rothfuss
What's new in the realm of Glock barrels? From Glock, not a thing.
~ Unknown
Nothing is ever solved, Solving is an illusion. There are moments of spontaneous brightness, when the mind appears emancipated, but this is more epiphany.
~ Patti Smith
Nevertheless, this is where it begins. The first word appears only at a moment when nothing can be explained anymore, at some instant of experience that defies all sense. To be reduced to saying nothing. Or else, to say himself: this is what haunts me. And then to realize, almost in the same breath, that this is what he haunts.
~ Paul Auster